Accoridng to Brown's "Limit to Information" the massive amount of inforation might overwhelm people. Some people are ready for the overload of information and have a clear vision of the influence of the Net; and some conservative people, who are not used to changes, are not ready for the amount of information available, which is growing gradually. Those people might suffer if we do not get them the right kind of training and that is the job of libraries. The libraries need to have sence of balance to satisfy all kinds of users. Libraries need to know how to use and benefit from technologies by adding more training that would make it easier for people to absorb the information available and how the information should be used while taking into consideration people who are hard to change.
The 6-D, demassification, decentralization, denationalization, despacialization, disintermediation, and disaggregation are the vision of librarians. They simplify things or guide society. They interpret and explain central developments in society.
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Hala, I liked your library lesson that libraries need provide training for their patrons. I took it that libraries need to embrace all of this new technology, including social software and all the new things that Web 2.0 is bringing us and help work out the kinks and whatnot so that it will be resourceful for our patrons. See you tomorrow!
Thanks Lynette, I think the job of the library at the present time is to train users how to access information and how to use the tools available for them.
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